Ela Peroci - Slovenia : 2022

Ela Peroci (1922 – 2001) was a Slovene children's writer, author of numerous children's stories that are considered classics in Slovene children's literature. Her best known story is Muca Copatarica (Slipper Keeper Kitty), illustrated by Ančka Gošnik Godec, which has seen numerous reprints and has sold over 140,000 copies.

Water Spirit - Folk Tales : 2011 Slovenia

2011-May

In Slavic mythology, vodyanoy (Russian); vodník (Czech and Slovak); vodyanyk (Ukraine) Wassermann (German) is a water spirit. He may appear to be a naked man with a pot belly (and bald-headed) wearing a hat and belt of reeds and rushes, conflicting with other accounts ascribing him green hair and a long green beard. The varying look has been attributed in commentary to his shape-shifting ability. When angered, the vodyanoy breaks dams, washes down water mills, and drowns people and animals. Consequently, fishermen, millers, and also bee-keepers make sacrifices to appease him. Thevodyanoy would sometimes drag people down to his underwater dwelling to serve him as slaves